Stalker

by Robert Levy

Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 2023

About the author

ROBERT LEVY is an author of unsettling stories and plays whose work has been seen Off-Broadway. A Harvard graduate subsequently trained as a forensic psychologist, his work has been called "frank and funny" (Time Magazine), "idiosyncratic and disarming" (The New York Times), "ambitious and clever" (Variety), "smart" (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction) and "bloody brave" (the UK's SFX Magazine).

His first novel, the contemporary dark fairy tale THE GLITTERING WORLD, was published by Gallery/Simon & Schuster and a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award as well as a Lambda Literary Award nominee, and also won an Earphones Award for exceptional audio from Audiofile Magazine. Shorter work has appeared in places like The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nightmare, Black Static, The Dark, Shadows & Tall Trees, The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction, and The Best Horror of the Year, among many others. His debut collection NO ONE DIES FROM LOVE: Dark Tales of Loss and Longing will be published by Word Horde in 2023.

Robert is a single dad who lives with his children in Brooklyn near a toxic canal, where he is awaiting his mutant powers to develop any day now. He teaches at the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Reviews

[emily · Rating 5 out of 5]

Using this as a stand-in for Levy's story "The Closet Game", published in Nightmare Magazine issue #118, July 2022. Read it for free here : https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fi...

This is basically a short story about how staying in the closet can kill you, both literally because it's a horror story, and metaphorically because the main character is a closeted queer kid. It's intense and sad and really fucking good.